What are your favorite things to buy at Trader Joe's?

They have the cheapest light coconut milk around! (I'm talking 99 cents/can compared to $2.50 and up everywhere else.) I use it for my chia seed pudding.

Also, their sour cream & onion corn puffs are delicious, and the serving size is gigantic! They are amazing when you want a crunchy/salty type snack.

My kids love their pumpkin cereal bars, but they only have them for a limited time.

Nothing. It's over priced, over crowded, and under staffed.

Diet_Soda wrote: »

They have an egg white salad that I really like. It is pricey, but still, a decent lunch when paired with a wrap that I buy at Aldi's. When I know I have a tough week coming up, I buy five of them and know that my lunch is taken care of.

I also like their boxed wine.

Their Spicy Ranchero egg white salad is delish!

I also buy: Soy Milk, FF cottage cheese, Lite Kettle Corn snack bags, Ak Mok crackers, corn salsa, feta cheese, "healthy style" Canadian bacon, honeycrisp apples (bag), and cage free eggs.

I like the stacked eggplant parmesan. There's some Chinese chicken soup dumplings that are really tasty, and low cal to boot. I hear that some of the frozen french pastries are really nice, but I've not tried them.

Some of the other meals are really tasty, but I don't like they come in servings of 2, when I'm only 1. Also the joe-joes - I didn't like them at all. The filling was too stiff, and the cookies had an odd aftertaste. The same complaint I have with most products containing soy, but I don't think these had soy in them at all. Ah well.

Anyway, best thing is to go, pick up a couple of things that look interesting and just give them a try.

Cookie butter
Frozen veggies
Cheese - especially brie and blue cheese crumbles
Kefir (strawberry only)
Greek yogurt
Flowers
South African Smoke (which they stopped carrying... GAH!)
Mini buns
Mini pitas
Gorgonzola gnocchi
Ginger "cat" cookies

I regularly (like, not every single trip, but frequently) get:

-Nuts of all kinds, particularly chile lime cashews and spicy/sweet pecans - but, all of their nuts are tasty and well priced.
-Many of their spices and their vanilla are wonderful and also well priced.
-Cheese of all kinds, especially fresh mozzarella, sharp cheddar, and goat cheese logs
-Applewood smoked bacon (or ends and pieces, depending on what I'm using it for)
-Mandarin chicken (frozen)
-Cereal bars for my kids
-Milk (We barely drink milk at home so I don't see the need to spend the money/time tracking down good local organic stuff, but I at least like the rbgh-free kind for the kids and it's the same price as the generic at my regular store)
-Bags of arugula, shredded cabbage and kale
-"Inner Peas" pea crisps
-Cinnamon graham crackers (they're, like, really dense, not like Honey Maid ones at all, and they're amazing, especially with flavored cream cheese)
-Editing to add the Fiberfull granola bars that I saw the next person mentioned. I forgot - I always have a box in my desk drawer for emergency afternoon snacks!

And then I typically end up impulse buying one or two things each trip , just depending on what strikes my fancy. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with all of the crazy options, but I try to try something new whenever I can.

Also, I always hear people raving about their produce? I do get bagged greens occasionally, but other than that I've never been impressed with anything else I've gotten there. Maybe it's just my store? I don't know.

COOKIE BUTTER! But, to tell you the truth, I can't buy it anymore because I tend to just stick my spoon in....lick it off....stick it in again...lick it off again...and, before I know it, half the jar is gone and also gone unlogged.

Inner Peas
No Salt Pistachios in the shell
Unsweetened almond milk
Unsweetened coconut milk
Mini peanut butter cups
Dark chocolate caramel wedges
Beef taquitos
The chocolate covered frozen banana bites
Parisian cucumbers
Uncured chicken dogs
0% fage yogurt
The saucy scallops and mushrooms thingy
Individual bags of the light kettle corn
Sunflower seed butter

PrizePopple wrote: »

Cookie butter
Frozen veggies
Cheese - especially brie and blue cheese crumbles
Kefir (strawberry only)
Greek yogurt
Flowers
South African Smoke (which they stopped carrying... GAH!)
Mini buns
Mini pitas
Gorgonzola gnocchi
Ginger "cat" cookies

I am still mourning the loss of South African Smoke. It was terrific stuff.

Everything!

They have great European foods to sate our transatlantic family needs

most liked:

• Joe Joes (oreo-esque)
• Cheese (Emmental and Pecorino)
• Simple Taste Beer (That's the name..Yummy)
• Inexpensive Table Wine (can't beat 2Buck Chuck)
• Yogurt (Plain)
• Frozen Croissants (thaw overnight and bake ...yum)

martyqueen52 wrote: »

Nothing. It's over priced, over crowded, and under staffed.

where are you from? there are tons of employees where I am and they are seriously the most pleasant people I've ever met, they all love their jobs.

Some of the stuff is pricey, but they really do have a ton of great deals.